ARCHIVED - Corvera airport employees, exactly how many jobs will there be.

Fuente Álamo postpone adjudication of training courses.

With the formal closure of Ciudad Real Airport today in Castilla La Mancha, , the inevitable process of political wrangling over the future of Murcias own private airport at Corvera International airport has begun, and it´s only to be expected that the opposition parties will seize every opportunity to make political comment during the next few days.

The comments have started over the training courses being run for future employees at the new airport, following the news that Fuente Álamo council have cancelled the process of adjudication of their courses for training prospective employees.

The cancellation was formalised at the Junta de Gobierno session due to the changes which have been made to the original provisions for staff training, following the announcement that San Javier would be closing and a proportion of the employees moving to the new airport at Corvera.
Originally 25,000 hopefuls had applied for 1100 training positions, from which an estimated 563 personnel would be selected, but it is now estimated that only half of that original number will be required, the other jobs being filled from amongst the staff transferring from Corvera, with Aena and the contractors currently providing services at San Javier.

Priority for job vacancies would be given to those living within the 2 municipalities of Corvera and Fuente Álamo, the councils which would be given grants to train the selected hopefuls.

However, Murcia will now train 330 hopefuls and Fuente Álamo 170.
Fuente Álamo council have informed the companies who pitched for the business that the original adjudication has been cancelled and that the revised training requirements will be published soon.

Murcia council has adjudicated its courses at a total of 410,000 euros, but this is now being criticised by the Iu-Verdes spokeswoman in Murcia council , who has today accused the administration of "selling smoke, " saying that the regional employment service is just putting the administrations through a continuous dance of ever changing figures, and that even after undertaking these training courses, there is still no guarantee that jobseekers within the 2 municipalities will even get any jobs, as it has still not been decided exactly how many employees will be moving with contractors from San Javier.

Due to the fact that there has been no confirmation of exactly how many workers will be transferring to Corvera from San Javier, and the announcement last week that Corvera will now not open until the summer of 2013, temporary suspension of adjudications would seem to be a sensible option, at least until the number of employees required is clear and the nature of the jobs they will be trained for, as well as when they will be required.